I Built a Game That Cries at 3 AM — And It Taught Me How to Fish for Silence

As a Bay Area child raised between Cantonese lullabies and Korean engineering logic, I designed a fishing game not to win prizes—but to listen. In the quiet of 3 AM, when the waves still, I realized: true luck isn’t in RNG. It’s in the pause between casts. This is my story of how UI/UX became my meditation—and how every pixel of code held a soul.
I Built a Game That Cries at 3 AM — And It Taught Me How to Fish for Silence